CB Fry

https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/761319862698405888 Corbyn tracking heavily behind "don't know" as best Prime Minister. And still I read nutters on social media and The Guardian comments talking about JC's popularity/groundswell/movement/etc.

Roberto Martinez is the new Belgian national team manager? Not entirely sure if it's not a twitter wind up.

Seems unlikely that a potential signing, who in some quarters has been linked with a move to Manchester United, would be parading around the ground with our captain.

Claude is working on an innovative 2-7-1 formation utilising a midfield pentagon protected by an additional deep lying midfielder and feeding an additional attacking midfielder.

Them being drawn to play Reading's kids is funnier than them playing ours. Reading kids. It is pretty humiliating for for the towering giants of world football.

I was under the impression that he was going to be our sole right-back. Heel do well in my opinion.

It's been nothing short of a miracle. When we were run by the greatest football businessman the world had ever seen we were still tracking behind then-Championship Watford in the commercial revenue stakes so I could only conclude that was the best we could ever do, especially as we were employing the only technique that can ever succeed in business of generally being a total pig-headed pri ck to any stakeholders or potential partners. The fact we are now smashing that number and leaving Watford behind means I can only conclude it's just all a lucky flukey fluke from people who will get found out eventually.

Bonjour, Monsieur La Telfer.

....is 27.

He's 27.

It will be a sorry state of affairs if one of the three keepers called up to the England world cup squad is a back up keeper for a middle sized Prem club.

Also, the uncharted territory of Thursday - Sunday plus the extra games and distraction of the EL is going to be a huge factor. If that knocks us back a place or two then I wouldn't be surprised. We'll be competitive come September 1st and we will compete on all (most) fronts, we'll probably give the League Cup the swerve this season. There's plenty to be excited about.

I thought they'd do it last season to be fair. Genuinely they are too big to be down there forever and quite frankly it's already a disgrace (for them) that they still haven't done it. But we all dream of them completing half a decade in the bottom tier so come on Cooky, get some fry-ups down them.

We've now got the best goalkeeping options in the whole league to go alongside the best midfield options in the whole league.

It's all up there with "why don't we do our business early" and "why didn't we just tie him down to a longer contract last year" and all the other assorted drivel that people seriously think have never occurred to anyone working at the club and that they've just come up with as an original thought.

You're pretty special, I'll give you that. For all the players we've sold for the last, what, six years, in every report, from the official site to any journalist, and deals through multiple agents brokers and football clubs, for high fees and low fees, not once has any release clause been mentioned by anyone. Not once. Yeah, okay I need to do like proper evidence to convince you don't I and stuff and that. I'll repeat the question I asked, first: who "may" we have sold via a release clause? Whenever you're ready.

Who "may" we have sold via a release clause then?

Well we don't. It's not people "on here", it's a fact. Unless you can name some players we've sold via a release clause during the Leibherr era, of course. Crack on.

Nice eight-months-later edit on this post. Top boarding.

Contract extensions usually offered up as the great cure-all by the assorted geniuses on this forum...why didn't we tie him down earlier...why didn't we offer 5 years/6 years/infinity...why didn't we extend last summer.....why do we let them run down etc etc.... Will be interesting if we have an agreement, formal or otherwise but part of his last renewal with Fonte that gets him out of the door quickly if an offer triggers it. It may be the the much vaunted tie-down really is worth diddly. He's still going on the forum banner, right guys?

I do. Generally I kowtow to the current board but not confident when renewals are trailled/leaked like this. Announce it when it's done, which is what we did with VVD and Shane and JWP and Forster. We've either done it or we haven't, I don't need hints. There's a "look, we tried" air to this stuff.

You should be in the loony bin, you loony. Get in the loony bin.

"Kowtow to the current board" What an effing plank you are.

Leaking contract offers to friendly journos. Les probably working on his YouTube hair as we speak. Nothing can possibly go wrong.

Or, we wouldn't have finished as high as sixth if we didn't have a stunning run of results in April and May.